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" The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. "

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" Fake is as old as the Eden tree. "

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" The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism. "

" Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him. "

" Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them. "

" The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. "

" I've always found it very sanitary to be broke. "

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